The CBI has arrested Power Grid Corporation of India’s executive director and five officials of Tata Projects, including an executive vice- president and assistant VP, in connection with alleged bribery to favour the private company in contracts and other works, officials said on Thursday.
They said the probe agency arrested the accused — PGCIL’s B.S. Jha, and Tata Projects’ Executive VP Desh Raj Pathak, Assistant VP R N Singh and its three other officials — after conducting searches at 11 locations on Wednesday which continued till Thursday.
The CBI recovered Rs 93 lakh from the premises of Jha in Gurgaon, they said. The CBI had received source information about the alleged bribery in electricity projects following which Jha, who was posted in Itanagar, was put under surveillance.
